Why Millenials Are Miserable
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1970s avg salary 10k, avg house price 20k.
2024 avg salary 55k, avg house price 350k.
On top of it, over time, money degrades in worth, such as the following:
Value of $10,000 from 1970 to 2024
$10,000 in 1970 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $79,058.25 today, an increase of $69,058.25 over 54 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 3.90% per year between 1970 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 690.58%.
You could only buy a house for $20k at the start of the decade, and only in a place with no jobs. If you wanted to live somewhere you could find a job, by the end of the decade houses were over $100k.
What sources did you use here?
come to canada, avg salary 55k, avg house 1mil+
@@RobertLutece909 Hmm, I wonder what specific change in monetary policy in 1971 that could have possibly caused this to happen?
Asmon completely misunderstood the guy. He wasnt talking about the people who fuck up, hes talking about the people who did everything that was considered "right" yet end up coming out of it into a job that pays nothing, student loans that wrack up interest which they took because the lie convinced them that college was worth it, and housing costs that are simple atrocious when they believed the lie that buying a house would be simple once they have a job.
Student loans when you take loans to get a degree in something that doesn't make money make it so you can't pay it back. Many doctor, nurse, engineer, business owner friends with degrees all paid their loans back easily because they didn't get a degree in something that doesn't make a good career.
He probably has to do that to subconsciously protect his ego. For someone like him, it’s probably crazy to imagine anyone who actually tried and failed, because he never tried. He’s an example of someone with no experience within the system trying to chastise people, or saying they didn’t try hard enough.
Boomer take.
He goes into defensive mode on these kind of topics because he knows that if he didn't smash his head against the table for views he would be working at the gas station or McDonlads.
@@jermss7624 Actually that's incorrect. Everyone, especially doctors, are in the hole for YEARS after they leave college and their debt is a major impediment to them starting their own practices as a result which has been a net negative for the american healthcare system.
welcome to the jungle, you can do everything right and still get hunted down. we still live in a jungle, just a different type of jungle, concrete, but the survival part is the same since the start of civilization.
Having a point while completely missing the point should be considered a true form of art.
Best comment!
I don't understand why he takes this "life coach" approach to the video and tries to shame people for "intelectualizing" the economical situation. I think understanding macro economies can really help you on your day to day choices, and if you want to start a buisness it's mandatory.
He ignores the economic evolution of the last 30 years and do not see that 1% of the world population has 50% of the wealth.
We could just "work harder loser" or just make rules to limit these inequalities, I would argue that the first option serves the interest of that one percent.
We’ll call it Asmonisms
Its a common mistake
@@Clemmort" I don't understand why he takes this "life coach" approach to the video and tries to shame people for "intelectualizing" the economical situation" Because hes in the 1% himself and got there by playing video games. He doesnt want that to change
Asmongold once again proves he hasn't been outside in 20 years. I can use anecdotes to allege the exact opposite. Most people i know did go to college, took it seiously, and are barely making ends meet.
saw another video where all the comments were saying that he doesn't often have a hard L opinion, but when he does he goes all in with it. >
You can use anecdotes to make inferences. He's right in what he says. The only people who get mad are middle class kids who never grew up poor or knew anyone who was poor. What did your friends major in so they couldnt succeed?
@@johnng120 If you can use anecdotes to make inferences, then my inferences are equal to Asmon's. At best they cancel out.
As more people with degrees join the homeless community this will become more visible.
@@Kepesk the difference is he's right and you're wrong he's using real life encounters and experiences. He grew up poor and most people you talk to who grew up poor or grew up around poor people would agree with what he says or don't have an issue with what he says.
This is the worst take I think he's had in a long long time. We went to college, we worked hard. We were supposed to get the bag, be able to afford to raise families... and we just can't.
I didn't get some trash liberal arts degree... I went into STEM like everyone told me to do. I have to yet, 10 years into to my profession, find a job with fair compensation.
I can't afford a home, I can't afford children.
The fact is, my grandparents could afford a house and 2 cars, and to raise 5 kids, and send them to college off of his McDonald's manager salary...
I can't even reach a CRUMB of that level of prosperity.
Yeah whole friend group, families, goverment is promoting and doing propaganda for you to waste your youth in school. But it's your fault that you listened to your family, friends, friend's parents and goverment and didn't decide to go your own way when you were a minor. Everything is our fault guys. Don't you get it? He is the best, we are losers.
And to fund their pensions the boomer politicians substitute you with masses of foreigners which drives up the housing prices even more. It would be funny if it were not this evil.
^@@DrathanKhan
Facts.
you are 100% right its bullshit. he chose a bad opportunity to speak to this.
im sure you know, what hes saying is being a whiner wont fix it. and hes 100% right.
Dude worked one time for 2 days as a 9-5 job and thinks he knows what is working hard 😂😂😂 cause he streams everyday too 😂😂😂 out of touch asf
"You're in a bad place cause u didnt work hard enough"
Ye thats not all cases bro, you're tripping 😂
I think Destiny was the same, he literally couldn't hack a 9-5 job before he got big streaming.
Ngl if you think streaming is not hard, then why dont u try it? 99% of the streamers are not Asmon, Shroud or KaiCenat who got 10k views everytime they stream. Most of the time, they barely get to have 10-50 views. I would like for you to try it for a year and tell us lmao.
@@shazazy4137 Seems like those 99% streamers are losers and not trying hard enough.
@@kireus6714 Exactly my point.
I don't think you understood what he said that much.
A STREAMER with no college or economics is giving life and financial advice ? Now I've heard it all .
Lmao and we have college grads who are in 150k of debt working at Starbucks but somehow that degree gives them credibility 😂 nice buddy. Cry about the economy some more, it might work this time.
you dont need a degree to see bullshit, specially with the internet and the absurd amount of information you can find online
He is right among most things that most people are lucky but they don't realise it.
Protip: people shouldn't get advice on why millenials are miserable from someone who lives in utter filth
What he doesn't get is the "losers" he's talking about could still get a local factory job that would support a family of 5 back in the 1950s
This right here is the elephant in teh room that Asmon refuses to see. It's not that it's impossible to do well in this economy, it's that it's MUCH harder to attain even a fraction of the standard of living that people had 50 years ago.
Bingoooo
@@thefalseherosure. So? Is thats a reason not to even try??
The money aint the same, and the world aint the same. Why do u live in the past
@@AntonKlermon No, it's the reason why so many people are speaking out about how much worse it is. Try to keep up with the conversation, buddy.
This video made me realize "Boomer" is a mindset and not just an age bracket.
I didnt think Asmon even owned shoes with laces let alone boots with straps.
@@FretBarvethat kinda went hard im not gonna lie
How many hours a week do you work and what is your income? Don't lie.
@@positrack99 Maybe it's different in US but in EU... I work a healthy 40 hours a week. Literally average income. Would have to work for 8 years to buy a 40 square meter apartment. Ofc 8 years of saving up ALL 100% of the income. Definitely not fucked at all xd
@@positrack99boomer
When the laziest and luckiest guy you know tells you that outside forces have no effect on your living situation.
That's not what he said, in fact he acknowledged that outside forces absolutely have an effect. His point was that the most likely path to improvement is to work towards change yourself, as opposed to waiting for another outside force to solve your problems.
@@tdrm Ironically, your defence is still applicable to the guy who has been the same internet personality for 10+ years. Proving that the outside forces don't affect him, also proving that the above comment of him being lazy and lucky is also true.
I don't think that's what he said. What he said is it's an extraordinarily poisonous mindset if throughout your life you are blaming others for your problems & thinking of your life as something that someone did to you, rather than taking advantage of the few possibilities you may have.
@@renoslash1890 Didn't Asmon mention that his family have oil or gas somewhere in Texas in one of his videos? or they're very wealthy, so he had a head start
@@tdrmHe literally said it's your fault if you trained for a job, only for that job to have it's wages massively reduced right when you start.
He clearly thinks outside factors don't affect you unless he can use it to belittle you for being "privileged".
My life experience has been that the harder you work the less you get paid.
Working harder only works if you work for yourself or have a union job that allows overtime.
That is something only someone who has actually worked in their life would know, and was not granted things.
@@excelion7109 Except I have. As the amount I was paid increased, the amount of work I had to do decreased.
My experience has been working hard in short bursts pays off in dividends, as does job hopping, to a point. Job hop until you find one you like at least.
My father died before even reaching 50, working incredibly hard, super long hours almost every day.
He succeeded in life and made it easier for us… he also fucking died doing it (apparently, yes, the work did likely have a (indirect) role in killing him)
So yeah, the world fucking sucks.
You sure judge people a lot for a guy who never left the same house he grew up in, never ventured to a new town or city, probably never paid rent in your life or tried start a new life. All your money doesn’t change the fact that when people look at you, they see a bum.
Asmon thinks hes worked hard, guy doesnt know what a single day of hard work is
@@myrichardinyoumyrich9743 Me risking my life daily to secure metal goods at harbour for shipment overseas getting guilthtripped by rich streamer. If anything is lazy, its his argument.
@@myrichardinyoumyrich9743 nah i wouldnt say that, he had an actual job at the irs. doesnt change the fact hes an attic dweller with a ton of privilege as said above. massive L takes recently
@@AbunaYeetHe worked a government job. You don't work hard in most government jobs. Plus, he brags about being a bad employee.
5 mins in an Amson has decided that "personal responsibility" is why people can't afford houses. Sorry bro - realize you got lucky and while some of your friends are fuck ups - There is 40+ years of wage devaluation and business trends screwing over employees (this has already been proven).
Exactly but asmon has never had to face this reality. He got lucky on youtube/twitch and never had to leave his mothers house and face the reality of renting and feeding himself
True I only ever here this opinion from people that got a house from thier parents 😂
@@Regarded69 The value of properties is relative to the job opportunities surrounding them. Anyone can buy a home in bumfuck nowhere but unless you've also secured a work from home job and highspeed internet (which doesn't exist in bumfuck nowhere) you're not getting an income which makes living remote economically viable.
Not to mention the classic "They did bad in school as kids so they are losers now" as if that literal child should be responsible for how a school treats them, how their parents treat them and their living situation. So many people like Asmon regularly talk about how bad schools are and how there are so many single parents and how that's bad for kids. But when it comes to looking at the repercussions of those problems, it's somehow always that persons fault they ended up how they are even though they had zero agency over their parents and family and were educated poorly by schools that constantly fail to teach. Of course there has to be some level of personal responsibility, but not everyone is an only child who had two present and caring parents and never had to leave home. Some people aren't that lucky.
EDIT: Point is how can you claim stuff like that isn't a failing of "Society". When all those things are the very fabric of what makes up society.
Yes - his bias was transparent to the point of making me laugh.
See, for his own success to be worth so much, it must be the case that it was all a product of sweat and effort. All lack of success is a result of laziness. His mindset strokes his own ego. Very convenient to have as a person in his situation but also dead wrong.
I'm 30 years old. Average annual household income needed to purchase a home in 1980 was somewhere in the $45K-$50K range. In 2021 it was $75K. Currently, the average annual income needed to purchase a home is $114K. So it's definitely not the same. I have 2 degrees, and have worked my way up the ladder to a job title of Senior Accountant, filling the functions of Financial Controller. I'm paid competitively. I struggle to make ends meet most months, and buying food for my dog stresses me out. I took a 51% increase in pay when I took this job 3 years ago, with a 40 mile commute. 1 month later, gas shot from 1.94 to 3.30 per gallon. In that same time period, dog food went from $58 to $83. Protein from $52 to $73. Rotisserie chickens at the local grocerty chain from $4.99 to $8.99. I'm in the exact same financial position after taking the 51% increase in salary as I was before. Do I always make sound financial decisions? Of course not, but the root cause for why I live paycheck to paycheck is definitely the result of a larger issue than my occasional impulse spending and is definitely something completely out of my control.
you need to find a partner or move back in with your parents. the days of single people being able to enjoy life on their own was an historical anomoly and those days are over.
Why do you have a dog? Also depends where you're trying to buy a house from. Let me guess? California? XD
Let's make comparison.
I was born in poor family where we sometimes couldn't even afford to have food. There was drug addiction, alcoholism and gang members related to my childhood as well.
I suffered from OCD, clinical depression, Asthma, Stuttering and shyness.
What changed?
I worked and practiced to overcome stuttering. I used my will power to resist OCD. I found motivation within myself to get over depression. I got over shyness by forcing myself to social events and getting used to socializing with people by trial and error.
Now I'm in upper-middle class.
Without doubt you most likely are just throwing excuses for your own failures and don't want to admit your flaws. There is literally youtube channel for this. Where they look at people like you and find out that you're just being irresponsible in spending.
You've done your numbers well, at least. But life's more than just statistics. You sometimes have to speak anecdotally, and it's easier to do that with some degree of optimism or agency. If there are outside conditions that are making your life harder, then you can still do something about it. Vote for good policies, stay educated, act in your own self interest, and bring awareness to issues that you're passionate about. Nobody should ever feel that they can do nothing to change their situation, because it's not true. If all else fails, be the difference you want to see.
@@frogery oh for sure. It was definitely easier when I had a roommate splitting my mortgage, but he and his fiancé got married lol. At the end of the day, I’m blessed and can’t complain. I get by, and manage to enjoy life and have a great life overall.
@@Tespri I have a dog because you have to decide what is worth sacrificing both financially and in regards to quality of life. I’d take on a second job before giving up my best buddy. At the end of the day, I’m a blessed and happy dude. I just think that sometimes asmon has a bit of a disconnect from the reality of the struggle of the average American in our age group, and therefore can look at these things through a bit of a simplified, naive lens, because he himself doesn’t face the same struggles due to his rare success he’s found in the world of streaming and RUclips.
He has a point for people that don’t do shit with their life but for the people that are doing the right thing and are taking action are still getting screwed.
Asmon is missing the point of what the guy in the video is saying in the first few minutes. The guy is saying that we were told working hard was suppose to lead you 1: a house, 2: a family, 3: retirement. That, in and of itself, is a lie. Housing is out of the price range of the majority of Millenials; not being able to financially provide for yourself means you cannot provide for a potential family, which means we're having fewer kids on average; and we're struggling to save any kind of money at all, even so far as living paycheque to paycheque. And it's a global problem. What we're seeing is that the even though the class system was supposed to be abolished, there are still nobles and commoners. And guess who the commoners are.
tbf asmon is like 20 iq so its hard for him to get it
tbf we don't need more kids this fucking planet is over populated as hell already.
He hasn't missed the point. He's purposely ignoring it. He can talk all he wants, but I have plenty of friends with degrees and are working jobs that don't reflect their education. I bet you he also knows the job market is shit and there's high competition but he probably ignores it too because it doesn't suit his points about poor people.
Seems more like a loser problem tbh, and losers have always had this problem regardless of generation. My fiancé and I are 26 and have no issues buying a house, starting a family, having healthy retirements accounts. This is because we've worked hard for our careers and don't blame others for our shortcomings. We've worked within the system and it's delivered on its promises. Obviously some people will just be unlucky and get fucked over, but I think generally the standard template for life, at least here in America, leads to a comfortable and respectable life. Every generation has its own obstacles and challenges. I think this constant doomer-ing about how everything sucks is a mind poison and leads many people to throw in the towel when things would just work out for them otherwise. Maybe look in the mirror instead of at society to solve your problems.
Yeah he's not looking at things in aggregate. He's providing anecdotes of some losers he knows who don't have anything because they didn't put the work in and extends that analogy to EVERYONE else, classic Fundamental Attribution Error. He's completely bought into the lie of American Exceptionalism because he was fortunate enough to be successful and thinks he did it all by his own virtue. He doesn't realize his privilege or the random chance that put him in his position, and thinks that position qualifies him to say anything about a system he's functionally been removed from.
As for a class system, the disparity WAS a lot smaller during the Boomers' prime years but rampant capitalism and Friedman/Reagan economics (the enrichment of the shareholder above all other priorities) sold out the prosperity of anyone who was born in the Eighties or later with the creation of an economic aristocracy.
"Rent has spiraled out of control, minimum wage hasn't kept up with inflation for 30 years, investors are driving house prices out of everyone's reach."
"YEAH, but some people are fuckups!"
what a worthless take
Textbook strawman, it's insane
Lol bro ur just lazy bro. I'm Gen Z and its literally not that hard if u put some effort in it. But hey, your life your responsibility haha.
perfect summary
@@AK255. You're lazy because you get your opinions from Asmongold
Asmon always shows his whole ass when he tries to talk about the struggle of the everyman. He's completely disconnected from what everyday people go through.
This is rich coming from someone who'd be living under a bridge if he didnt make any money from streaming. He literally said he couldn't get a job at Walmart years ago. He admitted he was a shitty student in school. He doesn't have any skills to land a well paying job yet he tells others to go get one
What made him successful at streaming pray tell?
@@valerista4269This is the question nobody's asking, and they should be. They've made such fools out of themselves saying, "Oh, he just got a streaming career. Plopped down in his lap one day." No. He stayed true to himself and to his interests, and he only changed or adapted to the degree that it made him more successful. People want to see this man play games, and they want to hear his opinions even when they disagree with him. The haters who waste their breath saying, "L take."... they just don't get it. At all. Not everything is about luck. Take luck out of the equation for one second, so that you can see what exact actions got you to where you are now.
@@danielmaster8776 It still was the luck component that made him be where he is tho. There are a lot of people true to themselves making videos these days and not getting any attention. Yes you have to work hard to be able to actually get a career like his but you work hard to eventually be able to capitalize on the lucky opportunities you get.
For Asmon, he had a bunch of factors which made it easier for him to work and capitalize on the luck but you shouldnt be acting like the luck wasnt there at all. He was able to live at home without having to get a job and pay rent thanks to his mother, which gave him a LOT of free time to be able to play games and work on streaming. He also was lucky enough to be able to capitalize on the initial streaming boom and WoWs popularity.
I think he usually has a good head on his shoulders for a bunch of things but this time I think his take is very much based on his own very unique and very lucky experience and he isnt reflecting properly on the reality of it. Its as weird as his takes on nutrition etc on steak and eggs.
@valerista4269 Luck mostly, since he started streaming around the boom. That and being a train wreck people enjoyed laughing at.
@@danielmaster8776 If that's how it is, and you understand it, why aren't you on his position too?
The fact that Asmon considers attending two meetings and then streaming all evening, with a fucking *_NAP_* in between to be hard work, really says it all.
There's a lot of gray area when we talk about people's comfortability stopping them from having valid opinions, but I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. Meetings can be a pain either because it's going through the motions, or when it's not that it's about a very stressful issue. But he didn't say that was hard necessarily. What is hard is streaming/recording/uploading everyday. After giving it a 1-year run or so, I couldn't do it anymore. And hey, no disrespect to anyone trying to get a nap in.
He didn't say that is hard work. He said that he is actively spending time doing things for his own good every single day. He actually said in another part of the video to plan avoiding hard work, and that should be a last resort. But also that you should still be willing to do hard work.
He literally said. Your goal shouldn't be hard work... He said it should be your last resort.. but keep going off about "who works harder" as if the harder worker should get more money.
My goodness you people who don’t take personal responsibility also seem to have selective hearing. Isn’t that quite the coincidence ?
I love how Asmon keeps flipflopping between "I just sit AFK in a conference calls while farming in a game" when its a flex and "I work all day running an entire company" when it's convenient for his argument
I say the same thing to my friends, "I sit afk in meetings", "I watch RUclips instead of working", etc. In reality, I contribute a great deal to my company and get my work done while leading my team. Asmongold doesn't get to where he is without doing several things right. He's obviously working, just not in a traditional hourly wage sense
I mean you gotta read "Bullshit Jobs". Itll explain why both of these things relevant and correct.
I mean you gotta read "Bullshit Jobs". Itll explain why both of these things relevant and correct.
this is kinda what is meant with "forming your own perspective on things" - he has his own unique expierence. This can or cannot align with yours.
@@arcanine_059 notice how it's never "I had to finalize a budget for x company this week", etc. or anything with an ounce of specificity. It's only "I had meetings." Be real, he used his twitch/youtube money to hire people to create/run his companies and he just sits in meetings for final approvals. All OTK founders have mentioned that this is how OTK was formed; where Tipsout, the only one with a traditional career background, did everything business related and everyone else just signed the paperwork/checks. Why would it be different with his other companies? His tour of Starforge showed he didn't have a clue how the operation was structured at even a macro scale. You're telling me an involved CEO of a newly formed company wouldn't even know the different departments?
Asmongold can't admit he's become disconnected from the average person because he's rich AF. This is standard mentality when someone who's poor becomes rich.
You can go from poor to rich and still have self-awareness, its called remembering where you come from and having sympathy.
No...hahaha...he's absoluetly right. People now-a-days are lazy af and blame everything on society. Every person is responsible for their actions and consequences.
it's a natural thing it seems like... once ppl have money, they get used to it and they can't seem to remember not having money or put themselves in the shoes of someone that does not have the money that he has but only can say : oh he's a loser.. he takes for granted that he is lucky he got wealthy doing what he likes.. playing games.
It doesn’t matter who’s saying it, what he’s saying is right. Stop making everything personal
Most problems ive seen are lack of work ethic, going to college but for stupid/useless/low paying job or bad spending habits. I know many people that go to wish and like "oh, but its only $5, its not that much!" but they do that a few times a week. They get coffee from starbucks which is now $8 for a lrg. They eat out often which is like $13-20/person. There are situations that you can find and force to be in to work. Theres house lots near me, no house, but lots of land for $25k for half acre. Its not much but for $25k to own the land you can then spend like $10k and get one of those small prebuilt houses installed. For about $50k you can pretty much buy land, get a small house on it and get utilities or whatever else you need set up. Is it fun and easy? No, but its possible. You cant want to live in the heart of LA though working at mcdonalds.
This is 100% survivor ship bias. The dude who make a million dollars and is too lazy to clean his own room does not work that hard lol
yep and he's sitting there giving all these people advice as if he's the best person to get advice from.
with a dollop of rugged-individualism and dash of meritocracy absolutism thrown, and a bucketful of "success" grease thrown in.
Dude was a professional beggar.. He got donations from people that found him as entertaining as the hobo singing on the street corner looking for change. He had enough fools to give subs and donate then he turned around used it to get a company so others can work and make even more money for him.
Always weird how Asmongold can sit here and preach that all these people are in bad positions because of the decisions they made while simultaneously being one of those people who made the same bad decisions and just lucked into a streamiing career that took off. Now he has the capital to make good decisions because he got lucky. Most people can't.
I mean it sorta makes sense why you have a Deus Ex profile pic and are complaining about "the system". You could be handed agency and it wouldn't do you any good.
@@Spardeous Please continue to bootlick unfair economic systems friend.
He came from poor family and got up. He has right to preach and so do I. I also came from poor family with drug addicts, alcoholism and gang members included in. Yet I live good life now. Everyone can make good decision.
@@Tesprihe has survivor bias. For every person like he was and attempted to follow the same path 1 in 100k can get where he is.
It's true every truly successful person had unwavering faith and will to succeed. It's also true that countless failures also had those same things.
@@JohnKerbaugh i went through worse and now in upper middle-class. Your world view is flawed. This wouldn't be possible if you were right
downplaying the modern day struggle while saying your financial situation have no influence on your opinions is as out of touch you can be.
We always lose our cool when someone we project as being above us is talking down to us, but maybe they are just the ones being real with us.
@@mrboy5283 hes not being real, hes blind to the modern plight of ruined economics. the cost of living is increasing in an alarming rate and have been for the last few decades, while the income increase is nowhere near the same level. owning a home and raising a family just isn't economically feasible for the average person today. and asmon completely ignores this and boils it down to personal responsibility
@emptyforrest I know what you are saying and Asmon never said anything to the opposite of what you are saying. This is something I try to do and it is always positive.
Stop for a moment and get ready to think. Now, take yourself out of your environment. If you struggle to do that then that's normal. Now, take yourself out of the environment. Okay you can think somewhat objectively now.
What can an individual do to improve the situation we have momentarily separated ourselves from? At this point, whatever you come up with is at the very least productive thought.
@@mrboy5283 what's the average price of a house again? and the average wage? want to compare those numbers to 20, 30, 40 years ago? how about it, I've got lots of numbers and none of them point to "people are just not working HARD enough".
@@emptyforrestLife does not automatically give you the right of due compensation. You don’t deserve a house and a car and children just because you are living being. You still have to make the better decisions, acquire desirable skillsets, build beneficial social connections, and make plenty of sacrifices to get what you “want.” A place to live is a “need,” but a house is not a “need.” A 2017 used car isn’t a “need,” but perhaps the buss pass is, if bicycling or mopeds aren’t an option.
So Asmon basically thinks anyone who works an unskilled job deserves to live in poverty. If you work full time hours ANYWHERE and don't piss away your money, you should be able to live a comfortable life. That is not true anymore.
25% of people living in the US today were born somewhere else. You can't have a flood of people from other countries like that without driving down the value of unskilled labor.
the think is even SKilled jobs are being replaced. Programmers? replaced by AI Graphic design? replaced by AI. Certain Medical Jobs? Replaced by AI. its not like learning a skill does you any good either. The best thing you can do nowadays is go to trade school and learn a trade
I can work very hard and carry rocks from one place to another with my bare hands all day for 16 hours a day, it might provide 0 value but it is still hard work. Maybe no one asked me to do it but I still do it, maybe no one wants me to pay me to do it, but I still do it. Should I get paid ? If so, how much? As much as an electrician? As much as a doctor? Or a CEO? I am working harder than all those guys. Your argument makes no sense, sir.
@@BasicPixell get a job in IT in general, so many different options and are hard to replace as they are trades
@@BasicPixellwhat do you think happens when millions of people are all trying to work the same trade jobs
One of the most hilariously out of touch things I've seen recently. He should buy a dog and name it Clue so he'd have one.
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO I'm using this
@@Testikles-mx6zjhe isn't going to respond because he's wrong
lmao
People cancelled him for AI and Palworld but his takes on economics are what he should have been cancelled for lmao
Bro tried so hard to stay relatable to us but he just can't.
Ikr
Exactly
maybe because his right and your situation
might be your fault
and certainly is your responsibility to fix
@@gillsejusbates6938 I certainly had control over my situation for the first 18 years of my life. It's time to find my way out of this dark hole hole in the dirt. Anyone got a flashlight?
He's not trying to stay relatable. He's trying to help at least one person realize that they suck and it's their own responsibility to fix it
Amazing example of survivorship bias. The dood lived with his parents rent free for so long that he forgot where he came from.
The best part is him giving his really bad takes about society when he doesn’t even lived like a normal person in society.
Pretty much he got carried thru life.
..and he not seeing any fault in it. It's a matter of Perspective indeed.
Also, he doesn't have kids. He fails to realize what position he is in
My favorite is the complaint that we waste her money but then when we stopped buying the stuff then they blame the younger generation for why businesses are closing down because young people don't really care about diamonds they're making their own coffee at home lol
why do I think that he thinks everyone can be a millionaire?
Texas brainrot
being rich makes you out of touch
Dave Ramsey 😂
He thinks everyone lives in usa
nothing inspires hard work like knowing your earning-power is actually rapidly decreasing year over year
Damnit noone wants to work anymore!
There is always someone else adjacent to where you are now. Don't be the one to let that bog you down.
That and the fact that mortgage rates went up by 4%. Inflation is the highest its been since the recession. Food prices up drastically due to diesel prices. I like asmon for video games but a guy who's lived in the same house since birth, never moved and only ever had part time jobs whilst living in his moms attic isn't exactly the guy anyone should take irl advice from.
That's why you buy real estate and company holdings. The things that are actual value. Money is imaginary.
@@jamesdagmond Black Rock buying all the real estate, we are cooked.
I usually agree with Asmon but man someone who got famous for looking goofy who played WoW and is now a millionaire is crazy to hear him trying to rationalize the normal person’s struggle is kinda crazy 😂👀 Zack is part of the 1% no matter how much he tries to act like he relates to the bottom 99%… I like him but when wealthy ppl trying to tell the average person how to feel needs to be questioned.
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@@MD-yd8lhThis isn’t me saying millennials make their own mistakes but there are problems he just won’t understand. Let’s not get it twisted my life is fine and some of the things he says in this video are true. However most of the issues were created by our parents who took out predatory student loans when we were 16 years old with no concept of money, also had schools PROMISING a job would be on the other side which the financial crisis took away.
He's just saying you can overcome that shit, and I agree with him. I'm an immigrant who was lucky enough to come to the U.S. and eventually earn my citizenship. I came here with nothing, and now I get sit around my nice house and watch Asmon and play games all day. Yeah, we have issues in our country, but if you try, you can overcome them. I mean, I fucking did.
@@mordant221problem is most guys in this comment section of the video run their mouths not their brains and muscles to make up for their mistakes in life at get back on track.
@@mordant221 yeah asmon is right. I'm in a shit position and it's 100%my fault. People just can't accept that they're the problem
I love when someone fires a valid argument at Asmond, he dumbs them down and humiliates them so he doesnt have to actually talk about it lol
What I’ve learned today is that maybe I should only listen to Asmon’s takes on gaming and take everything else he talks about with a grain of salt lol
Yeahh.. It must be nice to live in his bubble of a lifestyle that makes it so he never has to worry about expenses or the troubles that come with them for average people.
@@Aiko-xy7qf Agreed. Asmon went SSJ4 snob in this video and tried to pass off the societal and macroeconomic failures of the boomers as mutually exclusive to personal accountability using only the worst examples of millennials to prove his point.
@@jayrobitaille2402 What a crap take lmao
@@darthdonkulous1810 I don't see why. It may help to clarify myself. Baby Boomers had generally as a generation, the greatest head start in human history on average due to much higher buying power and WAY more affordable real estate but they did not keep the momentum going. Since boomers have been the ones in positions of power the last 50 years, they implemented worse and worse left wing policies. The fuckups of boomers can be acknowledged while also acknowledging that it is still incumbent on Millenials to make the best of boomers being terrible stewards.
A couple of points that Asmon missed - big time.
1. The internet has caused a literally unprecedented shift in the type and amount of information available to us. You may think that this level of anger is normal. It's not. This is the first time that a new generation is WORSE off than the last. Actual working people are furious about this.
2. The West is more educated than ever, and technology is more complicated than ever. We now compete with AI.
Shareholder greed has us working longer hours than last gen. When Asmon shoehorns stuff in about laziness, it's psuedo. We know some people are lazy. Get off of it. The REST of the evidence is too damning.
Everyone I know talks about and agrees with the causes for these problems. I work in engineering. How the fuck are you calling us lazy, streamer?
When did he call you lazy? His point was that nobody is going to fix your problems for you, you need to take action yourself. Shit might suck but either you try doing something about it or you accept defeat. Some people have it better than others for sure but it fundamentally does not matter how or why that is or if it's morally correct. If you self-identified yourself to be lazy when it was used as an example, chances are it's for a reason
@@amogus3023"actually you felt insulted because the insult is true" braindead take, he's an engineer my guy
@@OrchidAlloy what do his qualifications have to do with what he chooses to get insulted by? I can't see how would you derive "asmon called us lazy" from this video without making the jump yourself proactively, and if that's the case, then surely it's not for no reason.
Egg-fuckin-xactly. It's a complete superhero complex to assume no one gives a shit with what they complain about. "Work harder" isn't translation for "take power over your life" like some think, it's translation for "go back to the streets and stop speaking".
The world has and will always have countless variables impeding success. There will be the privileged and underprivileged. But there will always be those who succeed against incredible odds, and those people are those who 'acted', who acted when they saw that poverty was 20 fold what it was, rent was 100 fold what it was, and pay was 1/10th what it was before. The key factor is to act, if you want your own life to change. The world can't change for you, only you can change and adapt to the world.
Four years ago I bought a house. Three weeks ago I was talking to a friend, who was also looking to buy a house. Mortgage payments calculated for a similar one as mine were over four times higher than mine. He makes almost double of what I am and have a wife making about what I am and they concluded that they can't afford it. Both the price and interest rate was much higher. Not living in USA btw. Asmon may be surprised, but somehow it didn't feel right to call them loosers for that. Same thing happens over decades and sometimes leaps forward in the crisis, but it never goes back.
you bought close to the low point of interest rates, possibly 2%. its 7% now. dont act so surprised, and dont go looking for a house in the next year or so either lol
This sounds like Australia. I am in the position of your friend.
They are not losers but that doesn’t mean they can afford to buy a house in the area they want.
Why in the world would you think that asmon was specifically calling your friend a loser on the condition that he can't afford to buy the house he wants in the area he wants right now? That you even made that jump is crazy to me. I truly don't understand.
Your comments are so off topic.
The only people asmon was calling losers are people who don't do shit for themselves except for complain about how their shitty personal circumstances are entirely someone else's fault.
You just said your friend makes twice as much as you, and made the personal financial decision to wait to purchase a house.
Are those two circumstances the same in your brain? Do you struggle to find the differences here?
Surely you get it now. I don't have to keep giving you such a hard time about it.
@@ClowdyHowdy The issue of what are people disillusioned about and what I think Amon doesn't understand isn't simply "I can't afford what I want" but more "I'm doing the same as them, yet I can't afford what they could." So I don't think my story is off-topic, it's just more pronounced version of the same, as it happened much quicker. In general, people now have much harder time to afford housing, in USA to pay their college debts etc. Problem with calling someone looser in this situation, even people who just "don't do shit for themselves except for complain" is that there are many older people also didn't do anything else, yet were able to afford living at much higher standart then now. Seeing this, I can feel with them for thinking it's someone else's fault. At 11:30 Asmon said "If I had actual lense into your life, I could see exactly how it's your fault. Absolutely. And I think that it's the case 9 out of 10 times." as a response to comment about not being able to fix economic issues with more effort. I gave an example when it is not the case, and I am convinced it also isn't just the 1/10 case. Of course you can always find something that someone can do differently - don't wish for such house, find another job, start own company, learn programming. But again, source of disappointment is the comparison of rewards between the people, who did the same, only by chance few years earlier, not just being unable to afford something.
There have been so many layoffs recently, i am one of them.
I have a good set up at the moment, but even then im only a few months away from starting to burn through savings to stay afloat.
Asmon is so disconnected from reality and the struggle people go through economically.
its true. but from what ive seen of his political compass video he tries his best to stay nuanced. often oversimplifies things but I think its from a good heart to encourage common sense also. he has a big following and for him to actively seek realistic conversations about money and stresses of life without displaying some form of hope it might discourage a lot of viewers
"Let them eat RUclips."
I just watch the presentation for the fourth quarter earnings and so many more companies are going to start laying people off in March. There’s even a website that tracks lay offs.
@ll2323 It shouldn't even matter to you unless YOUR company is going to be having layoffs. Do your research, how'd your company do last quarter? Last year? Did they hit their goals? Are there rumors? How is your personal performance? Be honest would you be on the chopping block if they did have layoffs? If not don't worry about it. If so start improving your performance or start looking for another job. Come on we're not politicians, we're regular citizens. If you don't have a grasp on your local situation worrying about the broader situation is irrelevant.
ayo, dude is actually delivering the same message in a different format. I almost always agree with you but you missed on this one.
I have to edit even though nobody will ever see this:
I completed trade school almost ten years ago as a welder, I have had 18 hour days, I have been away from my friends and family for a month at a time. During aforementioned time away I was making the most money I have made in my entire life and I still sold my vehicles and gave up my apartment to live with friends because it wasn't financially viable.
-I can paint
-I can weld
-I can do vehicle mechanics
-I can do light electrical
-I can do framing
-I can do fine woodwork
-I can do finishing work in both metals and wood
-I can build computers
-I can build excel spreadsheets that pull information between points for margin trading
-I can fix trash compactors
-I can do client facing work inside of major corporate headquarters
-I can do security work
-I can grow plants
-I cant do fencing
-I can do landscaping
-I can do concrete
-I can build websites
-I can do video work
-I can take photos
-I can have a conversation with anyone
-I can even set up a stream
-forklift cert
-boom lift cert
-scissor cert
-traveled the world and the united states
-I do homeless outreach and overdose training
-Field medic
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I have zero debt,
What I cant fucking do is buy a house,
I have a credit score of 798, not only do I have my trade, I also have experience in business management and marketing, working on a degree.
I save money every paycheck and I dont buy anything for myself.
I eat noodle cups.
You got soft hands boy, don't fucking tell me.
some of us just get to play world of Warcraft all day and talk. Sure, you are successful now but look at how you got to where you are. Luck
I wish I could do what you do.
I often feel like I use my mental illness as an excuse, but the reality is that it's not just an excuse, it's a genuine problem.
I'm only 21 and my memory is so bad it's like I have dementia, I know myself that I would never be able to hold a job because I can't even remember shit that was just said to me.
That's not even mentioning the depression, that causes a complete lack of motivation for anything and everything.
Even if I wanted to do something or NEEDED to do something, I would basically be incapable of getting myself to do it.
Basic everyday tasks are near impossible.
And with ADHD (potentially Autism), everything I do, no matter what, is never rewarding to my brain.
I feel no accomplishment for anything.
So I don't have a job, because I can't muster an ounce of motivation for anything (even just getting up in the morning), I can barely remember things anymore (so forget trying to give me verbal or even written instructions) and nothing I do feels rewarding.
And the thing is, I can't just get over it, these are problems with my brain itself, there's no simple fix, and for some things, there's no fix at all.
It will take years, maybe even a lifetime before I can ever function like a normal person.
Have you tried living van. I'm lvn. And I lived in a van for 3 years with two cats . Worked 7 days a week nights an 3 days had part time job after. Bought house rural CA area
If u don't want to do that, there also USDA loan no down payment but has be rural area all states have them.
"but you missed on this one."
Nah, you did. He isn't stating that just because you can do a bunch of things you're going to be successful, nor is he stating that the number of hours you work in a given day will make you successful.
Success comes with being able to seize opportunity. There are people who have built multi-million dollar businesses just off of ONE of the skills you claim to have, so why haven't you? Because you've failed to find an opportunity and capitalize on that opportunity.
What is a market need in your local area that isn't being fulfilled? What is a skill that you have that provides a better product or service that's currently not being delivered by someone else? That is how you generate success. Not "working hard". Not working long hours. Not getting an education.
Somehow the message that's being stated by Asmongold is failing to connect with most of you and I'm going to go out on a limb and state that the reason why it's not connecting is because none of you can take advice, circumstance, and knowledge and apply it to opportunities in your own life.
Quit blaming everything around you. No one is going to make you succeed but you and the way to success is finding an opportunity and capitalizing on it. Not sure what they taught you in your Business Management degree - but most teach this like...Day 1.
It's not the older generations fault, get the f out of here. Ever think of reading the bible? what does it say? SATAN HAS DOMINION OVER THE WORLD. Through our lord Jesus Christ we are saved. His kingdom will come his will be done, as it is in heaven on earth. Forever and ever King of kings Jesus Amen.
I do hvac trade work and do pretty well. Don’t be petty. Praise others’ success.
Shittakes aren't just mushrooms
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HAA...? So what is it then..
@@pc14thenumber9 you missed the joke
@@pc14thenumber9 all
You had to do is: 🤙
being lazy doesnt drive up cost of rent
Very true, so you can either A. Complain about high rent until the landlords finally realize they were wrong all along and cut you a break out of the kindness of their hearts or B. Make the necessary adaptations (higher income, reduced spending, or finding a cheaper place to live). One of these is in your control and is more likely to actually give results.
Had to work 60 hours to afford rent with other people and buy healthy food with zero savings while praying my car doesn’t break down lmao
@@Deeptunester Dude, the layoffs. THE LAYOFFS. There's no income left.
No but it cripples your ability to deal with it.
@@maibaolinh1253 You're right. I forgot that once you're laid off it's impossible to ever find another job for the rest of your life. I also forgot that it's impossible to save any money while employed in preparation for potential financial emergencies. If you went in to work tomorrow and found out you were getting laid off, how would you react? This is a question that needs to be answered before it actually happens. That's called being smart.
Asmons out look on this is very unrealistic. He has a black and white attitude that either you succeed or fail. But there are many people that can't help themselves. For example, people with depression or sustain abuse. It's easy to say: snap out of it and your life is fixed. Of course, that person is responsible for how their life played out, but even if you turned back time and give them a second chance, they would end up in the same situation.
The average person is very stupid and incompetent. Even if you show them step by step what they have to do to become successful, they will still fail. Not everybody is made to be a leader or owner of a company.
The main issue that people are complaining about is that having a house, wife and kids seems to be an unrealistic goal nowadays. Unless you have a high-paying job. It's a lot easier to be a loser in today's age. Back in the 50s, people worked in a factory and had a house, wife and kids. No degree, no company and no lifetime dept they needed to get there in the first place.
Yes, complaining won't fix anything in your personal life, but uniting with people that go through the same problems does. That's why people make these videos.
One quick side note, Asmongold is a drop-out that started making videos for fun and managed to make this his full-time job. If Asmongold had gotten a girlfriend, his mom got sick earlier or had another event that would have stopped/distracted him. He would probably still work for the IRS and get 70k a year. He will 100% disagree with my next sentence but:
"You may have talent for streaming, but you just got lucky"
It's amazing how the people who talk about society fail to realize that society only exists because individuals exist. Its the individuals who make up a society. Wow.
Exactly, nobody seems to see how bad things can actually get when a large portion of your society is struggling. Why do you think these billionaires are building bunkers, because they are going to prime targets unless they fix the problem. I don't expect them to, population control and all that.
This is 100% the opinion of someone who's disconnected from reality through wealth.
just from my experience a lot of people who do the van life are wealthier people LARPING as poor people.
Yep. Those van lifers are, to a large extent, frauds. I shudder to think how many people they've convinced to put all their money into a van and sleep in the Walmart parking lot. That's a tough life unless you have one of those rare, golden "remote only" jobs that pay six figures.
I've got friends that were gonna live in a bus before some health complications arose. They worked and saved up and renovated the interior to be really nice. They spent most of thier savings to do it, but they thought the proce was worth it because they would only have to pay for gas, internet and food. They both worked remote jobs that would've covered those costs with enough for leisure.
The main reason they seem wealthy is because they significantly reduce their costs by living as such. Unfortunately it doesn't work so well in families with kids, so it's not an option for everyone.
Vans are lowkey ridiculous because the vanlifers bought them all then to get a van today its like 100K for the Sprinter 50K for the remodeling, its really not for bums anymore like people say.
@@EsperagonChannel I think they're more-so talking about the people buying the $200k fully decked out Sprinter vans. You can buy an old school bus and remodel it fairly cheap if you are doing the work yourself, so that's not really a surprise. But the people that are spending the equivalent of a mortgage on a van, and then posting RUclips videos of their "perfect life" while waking up at the beach every day is what a majority of "van life" has become.
@@Freznosis Ah yeah I can see how that becomes an issue of indulgence then. My friends bought an old bus used for transportation between hospitals (I believe) so they did get quite a deal on it too.
The survivorship bias is off the charts. Just imagine this conversation on slavery. "You are not going to end slavery. All you can do is accept it and work the hardest you can to become free. If you can't achieve freedom, it's your fault. It's not the fault of society to to make you free."
This guy comes from a working poor background and now that he's rich off streamer bucks, he considers the working poor to be "losers." That's even worse than being a trust fund kid and thinking that.
A millionaire who is out of touch, did not expect that.
Right? 🤣
No he is not i have seen immigrants dirt poor without english come here and make bank. it's a mind set and most people here are soft.
@@peekychu5235
Riiiight. A "MIND SET" and not stagnant wages. A "mindset" and not rising cost of living or outrageous housing prices. A "mindset" is the cure to lowering job stability in the country, the companies aren't responsible, it's our "mindset". Workers rights diminishing? The return if child labor? The loss of rights over our bodies? Can't wait to "mindset" college debt away, sweet! All just a mindset away from POOF vanishing. Damn, bro I had no idea it was that easy. I'll get right to work on that mindset and hopefully all these things will be gone tomorrow.
@@peekychu5235 Mf you can't just say "i've seen xyz happen so why can't you do it?", just because you've seen one thing does not mean the other is immediately false.
@@peekychu5235because they receive benefits and don't pay taxes because it's under the table, they also have a network of people that help them.
"Millionaire attic dweller tells normal working people how the world works."
Stay in your lane, Asmongold.
Staying true to your name my king.
He has the rights to, he's a millionaire, he made that money himself, he's successful, you can't argue with the results
so that changes that he grow up poor? that changes that he literaly was at the bottom of the US?
Yes but hes advocating for grinding and working hard when for the vast majority of the population, that means working shitty jobs with nothing to show for it. Its objectively a lot easier to grind from your pc chair, without ever leaving the house.@@Dumb-Comment
@@rey6708 survivor bias
Fairly rare major Asmon L. I got five and a half minutes into the video before I knew this whole vid would be him shitting on people who "don't try hard enough", and looking through the comments, I wasn't wrong. He's turned into a Boomer stereotype before our eyes.
Think it might be time to watch a few less of his vids, and 'speak with my money', so to speak.
Nah. Big w
You seem like a fan of him yet fail to listen correctly 😂
I love you enough to tell you your out of line in hopes we both can become better collectively is a dead state of mind. No one believes a random stranger can "love" them just for being a fellow individual. We all need healing man
Tons of people do. "Because you exist, you matter." That's what Christianity says. That's what the abortion abolition movement is about. That's why people try to stop others from committing suicide. Etc.
It's not society's fault that any given person is a loser. It is society's fault if the percentage of losers goes from 15% to 30% however.
And even then it doesn't matter whose fault it is, either you take action and do something about it or you don't.
smart comment imo
What does "society's fault" mean though? How is society supposed to fix your problems? Asmon is right that no one is going to save us except ourselves.
@@myheartspitsyou take your plight to the courts and convince them why it matters, that's what happens all the time and it works.
It would help a lot if society would stop screwing up constantly. Affordable food, housing and bills, fair pay for work... Is that really so much to ask for? @@myheartspits
Ah, the slip-up where he admits he thinks he's better than the chatters because he's more successful. Bro's such a two faced hack sometimes.
Well yeah... dude doesn't have much else going for him besides cash and clout.
Is it me or has it been getting like bad lately 😭😂
What would you expect from someone with his personality? He always act in benefit of himself, even if that means to distort reality and be hypocrite
Where is this part at can u get the time
@@nickwilson9700yea he's losing it
The video he watched, other people were trying to talk about actual reality compared to other generations. Asmongold talks about mentality and some weird philosophy, which is valid and true but not remotely close to the topic. Maybe he got caught up in his own success and forgot what the average life looks like, and he wants to give motivational speeches. I don't care, but people in newer generations have to give their souls to achieve a fraction of the liberty that previous generations could achieve with less investment. We're not talking about "losers," we're actually talking about people who put in the effort, and that's the funny part of the conversation. You can be successful, you can have money, and you can do 'anything', but again, that's NOT the point. The point was how life has gotten more advanced, but at the same time, it's too complex and demoralizing for people to join "society" and, most especially, become fulfilled.
Not every person can go into the high paying fields or society just would not function. Telling people to only go into jobs that pay well or else you're condemned into a life of suffering is a terrible mindset to have.
This type of 'advice' displays two-fold stupidity...
1.) Most people simply don't have the genetic makeup AND/OR the environment to complete some STEM type of education. They just don't. It takes a certain ability to read and understand intellectually dense and mathematical information (without getting bored), visualize it in your head and apply it in multiple scenarios... There's a reason why in any given generation of people, only a small % finish some engineer level of education.
2.) If everyone was somehow able to be an engineer, then being an engineer wouldn't mean anything... The value of something is always relative to supply and demand. 50 years ago, a college degree meant something. Nowadays, most don't... Why? Because a lot more people graduate from college today, so there's nothing special about it. The qualifications just get more convoluted.
Grandpa use to be the sole bread winner to a wife and 4 kids working as a ford mechanic. Parents built a brand new house in ‘81 for $50k. Now days 2 parents working full time can’t afford 4 kids let alone build a new house.
My dad worked as a car mechanic from 16 to 50, tried to make his own business, employed dozens of people over the years and worked day in and day out all this time. Today he's making deliveries, has no retirement money, has no house, our car is 20 years old and there's no perspective we can change that. His business went belly up due to the government's obscene taxation policies in Brazil and the country in general kills 80 to 90% of the new businesses in half a decade.
I don't know how things work up there but here our education system only cares about one thing, the ability to memorize shit from elementary scholl all the way up to uni. My parents wasted thousands of dollars and I wasted a decade of my life on a system that was teaching me to memorize and forget right after with the hope of getting superior education.
On paper we have universal free healthcare, reality is that if anyone on my family gets sick, we're more likely to die laying down on the floor in a public hospital.
The one right call my parents made was to force me to study english and for this one choice now I have a remote job overseas which gives me the same amount of money that my dad working full time delivering food.
My family makes around 10 times the minimum wage, we don't get shit from the government and still barely make the ends meet every month.
In my country, I'm in the 10% richest percentile and still I cannot get sick or take a break without facing severe consequences.
Sure, if you try real hard you can make it and honestly unlike most people I do not resent successfull people, but the problem is that being miserable has become the norm to most people and saying "all you need to do is to try harder" to someone that's already over the edge is offensive.
I'm fine with winners winning and losers losing, on the other hand, humiliating people that lost and saying they deserved the life they've got just because you think they didn't try hard enough is disgusting.
I don't need any pity or help, I just need a world where the bare minimum is enough to live instead of surviving.
Asmon thinks you can't be personally responsible and criticize society simultaneously.
My brother, we are just fucked by our governments. Over there in the US prices are cheaper in rural areas, services, groceries, property too. If you can work remotely then you can move to less populated places with bigger and cheaper housing, with the possibility to even grow your own food or animals, which only need a small amount of your time in a small scale.
In the US if you work hard and put effort you can start your own business and thrive. All of the people who i know have small business in the USA lost a ton during the lockdowns, but they bounced back up once the economy restarted.
People who disagree and live in the US are just trapped in the mentality of infinite growth, into believing they need all the stuff they buy and pay for, into believing they just have to do all those outings or buying all those expensive toys, clothes, food, whatever else they think they need.
It's not that there is a lack of jobs, there is a lack of workers and a few companies that exploit their workers.
In the US is a whole mixed can of worms, but it's overall the same brainrot worldwide. If you can afford to live in the city, by all means due so, but in this day and age you don't need to live in the city, you can live in the countryside and still make it, you just have to give up your toys, leave the consumer life.
Over here in South America we are just fucked no matter where we live because our govt has stolen everything from us and keeps stealing. Our people have been brainwashed into thinking we need to be completely dependant on the government for everything, we have been conditioned to ask for help and oney from the govt, when in fact, everybody forgets that money you are given, is taken from everybody else's and your own taxes. It's not free.
This is way more appreciated in countries like South Korea or Japan, where people have become extreme consumers, they consume so much and desire so much to live where everyone else is living, they want to do all these trending things and try all the stuff the famous people or influencers do, so the demand is insanely high and the prices are extremely high because of that. It's gotten so bad their countries are giving them money to go back to the smaller towns and populate them, but they don't think of their children, they think of the here and now, no future planning, everyone wants instant gratification, so they don't move to towns and populate them to turn them into cities of their own, instead of trying to compete so hard in an overpopulated area.
While I sympathize with your situation, based on what you wrote I don't think you watched the entire video. If you did, you either weren't paying attention or for some reason didn't understand Zack's message.
@@naughtywizard It appears you didn't watch the entire video either.
How is that not your dad's fault? Uhh...
Maybe I'm just high, hearing Asmon talk about avocados just got me thinking...
I think it's pretty cool that trees and bushes were like "shit brother, I can't move! How am I supposed to make kids that won't compete with me for sunlight?" And genetics said "Worry not you strange s*x fingered wood boi! if you smell nice to bugs, and you grow these little flesh pods, weirder creatures will come an eat them and then poop all the seeds around the forest!"
Then the trees asked, "but, if I can't move, how will I take care of these children if they are scattered far and wide??!"
And then the little nerdy mushrooms popped up and were like "heeeey dude, don't worry about it, we just invented the internet underground. If you pay us in nutrients, we'll connect you to the internet so you can join Barkbook and then you can connect with your kids no matter where they are!"
Humans are the new tree.
"what part of the data is factual"
Like, bruh☠️
The numbers don’t lie, things are fucked out here. The prices of everything are up and wages have hardly moved at all. The risk is greater than ever for making a mistake, and I think that’s why people feel such hopelessness.
People should be taught economics and finance in high school to understand how the world moving around them without having a secret society being behind it. There are less and less places in the world to exploit while Western society is more lazier while more demanding, therefore its much easier to taking those overpaid jobs to somewhere Asia where they happy to work twice as hard for quarter of your sallary. There is so much technology built into our everyday life for very affordable prices due to the fact they manufacture in Asia and mining minerals using technically slave labour in Africa. This is the exchange of globalisation and society due to politics and burocracy fail to adapt as fast as technology changing our life. The same time you have 70 80 year old politicians driving policies who are not in touch with reality. The problem is a combination of many things but you can either freeze like a deer or focus on your own life and make the system work for you, however it is its more beneficial if you looking for solutions than pointing fingers.
so what will statistically lead you to success, lying down in your bed and thinking everything is hopeless or going out there and trying?
yes it is harder for us than earlier generations, yes the economy is shit, yes the country is flooding with foreign criminals but YOUR life won't improve by saying everything is shit and giving up
Don't make mistakes. Git gud scrub.
@xandii4694 not mutually exclusive. You can think things are hopeless while still trying, most people who have that mindset are very much trying.
City people problems are not rural people problems.
When I was a kid, I was told that school was everything. I questioned that, even when I was very young. Meanwhile, my friends were so afraid of being losers that they studied long and hard, went to the best universities in their area, did extra curricular activities, anything to give themselves an edge. I pursued my own interests and developed skills outside of academia, focusing my energy on quality of time not quality of pursuit. My friends could not comprehend why I wasn't over achieving like they were and I felt sorry for them.
Fast forward two decades, I'd be lying if I said a decent number of these people aren't doing well but there are a surprising amount of people who are only doing 'ok'. They are either unable to afford property but still live relatively well or spend most of their waking hours working. So their reward for all that extra devotion was mediocrity and in some cases, significantly lower quality of life than their parents.
The sad irony, I out-earn most of them. If we lived in a just world, I'd be the one struggling. This isn't a brag post or a cautionary tale, it's just a statement of fact. People think success is a formula, it isn't. It's a random collection of factors, most of which are entirely out of your control. All you can do is be persistent and set yourself up as best you can. There are people who hired me simply because they liked my personality and tenacity, despite being severely underqualified. On the other end, I've been in hiring positions where we had to turn down qualified candidates because they folded under pressure in an interview scenario. It is a very real possibility that you could be denied your dream job having all the necessary qualifications because the interviewer doesn't like your face. It sounds petty but it's true.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful perspective. The world needs more compassionate people like you. I envy my friends who went into trade or stuck with one thing since high school and are making out okay with it, including my ex boyfriend (now good friend), who is making over 80k after only going to a year of trade school for IT. I'm one of those people who got a degree, in a "prosperous" subject, and have always worked extremely hard and regardless have been totally devastated in all aspects----for several years now, and I'm so exhausted. Something has got to give soon.
@@nat3199when I was married I was steadily getting raises and after 10 years I was making significantly more money than when we first got married, and yet we were still living paycheck to paycheck even 10 years later.
After our divorce I was able to pay down all our debts (I had to take over all our debts) and then kept at least a couple thousand in my account all the time. She is still struggling with money.
Point of this story being that some people are their own problem when it comes to money. If you can't manage your money you'll stay poor.
Massive L take, bro has somehow forgotten what its like to be poor
For someone who likes statistics so much he’s so fucking lazy on this point. It’s not hard to look into it instead of suggesting that anecdotal evidence means he’s right and I usually agree with him. For once he is dead wrong and his take is incredibly privileged. To have won the lottery on twitch and RUclips and be a millionaire in a house that his mother and father bought gives him a point of view that is so skewed. He has a mortgage and interest rate that is inherited from them. He doesn’t account for market forces and the distribution of wealth. He doesn’t understand economics well enough to even look at how they are now versus how they were even 50 years ago and what that means for the average American. But you know he’s got the microphone and thinks he’s never wrong so I guess he isn’t immune to the main character syndrome.
As someone who lives in the middle of nowhere, there is a scale. No, we don't pay as much as someone in LA does for a house, but we don't make the same amount of money, have to travel for everything (hospitals, groceries, etc), pay more for less service (internet, gas), the jobs available are part time with no benefits at the minimum wage that is not 20$/hr, etc. The houses we can afford are rundown and in disrepair, and it is more expensive/difficult to get those repairs done. It's definitely different in many ways, but it's also very similar.
10 years ago this was true. But in the past few years there are so many remote jobs now. You can earn that LA or NYC money online and still live cheaply, best of both worlds.
@@Yarcofin It's still true where I live. How is someone who can't afford groceries going to afford a computer? Not to mention, remote work is being phased out around the country; lots of people are being recalled into the office from their remote homes at least once a week.
It may not be true where you live, but this is not the case for my location.
@@Yarcofin thats bullshit
I pay 2k in rent. Bald man can't see that the world is burning
Move lol
I think its better to buy a shitty house and fix it up than to pay 2k in rent... what city do you work in?
I just looked at a house with one of my girls and with 3% down the payment was cheaper than that....
To where? I live a pretty rural area, not exactly the middle of no where but no where near any "big city". Rent here is around $1400 a month for a 1 bedroom. Most people either drive over 1hr to get to a decent job, or work at local retail shops making an average of $15 an hour, if that, and struggle profusely. Fortunately, I have a really good job that is relatively close by, about 40 minute drive, and I could afford to buy a house, but my mortgage is still around 35% of my take home pay. I'm also married, and my wife works, without her income I doubt I could afford the house I live in (making about $130K a year). Could I find somewhere a little cheaper? Probably, but then the chances of finding a job paying close to what I make now would be nigh impossible.@@thegoatmen7736
Yeah Pete just buy a fucking house easy@@z-rossi3672
The last guy is a perfect example of why nothing changes. They all talk about how society needs to change, but aren't willing to do the work themselves to make things change.
I love Asmon but without everyone donating too him he would not be a millionaire and his bad decisions would make him a loser as he said. So im not sure what his point was here. I guess having money really does take you away from the real world because he doesn't have a clue
Amg six likes thanks everyone this is the most I've ever had I feel so famous like pokimane snd Asmongold I know the world now. I shall embark too equador and sell gold like traxnyc hahaha
Asmon hasn't done any of the shit he talked about people should do. he got lucky and now looks down on people who struggle. it's crazy how detached from reality he has become knowing he grew up poor. He has no idea what people have been through or are going through even if they did everything right. I was fortunate enough to also get lucky my whole life but I don't look down on people who can't make it at the end of the month. Especially when it's becoming a majority
he GREW up poor, as in as a kid, he was never working poor, he has no idea, just the faintest memory of someone else doing it, he isn't slogging it out in meat cutting room freeze for 12.50 an hour in todays money, and he never did.
Why don’t you look down on them?
He forgets that luck is a huge factor in success
@@SomeDudeOnRUclips16 Which part in his journey did get he lucky at, specifically and clearly?
@@johntravers2321 What else would you call streamer donations? You don't work for donations, you do nothing to earn a donation. But that's what made his streamer career possible. Let's not pretend like Asmongold did anything substantive in terms of work or effort to get the financial benefits from streaming that made him successful in the first place.
You can tell when someone was raised with a silver spoon. Both of my parents were addicted to meth since I was 13 years old. By 16 my brother and I were homeless and my parents would roam the streets like zombies not being seen for weeks. School became almost irrelevant when you are unsure of where you will be sleeping or if you are going to have a meal that day. I began working at Walmart the day I turned 18 and have been grinding ever since. Now at 36 I'm finally earning what used to be considered a substantial wage but the average price of a 1 bedroom 1 bathroom apartment is around 2 grand per month. So I can either choose to live alone and severely kneecap my ability to save which makes the possibility of buying in the future much more difficult. Or I rent a bedroom for 800 a month and hope the economy doesn't keep moving in the same direction so that one day I can have a home of my own. Now please excuse me while I go work another 100 hour work week while you call people lazy from your computer desk.
Fucking preach it brother
And few comments ago you earned 120k$ a year and spend 50% of your income on rent. So save up that soggy made up story. There are more options in your story too. You are not feudal peasant that is welded to your district.
then arent you doing what hes saying by trying to improve your life instead of sitting on your ass blaming everyone else
Not being raised with the yeast at the bottom of the barrel does not make one some spoiled brat who never knew hardship. It just means you were exceptionally fucked by the draw of life, and that sucks dude.
Your parents garbage decisions put you in a shit position to take on life. I wish you luck.
A lot of what Asmon is saying here can still be used and applied by most people though. There’s issues in the system and that’s worth trying to resolve, certainly. We can still take responsibility for what we can and pull ourselves up though. It beats just resigning ourselves to victimhood.
Amen brother.
i think that his sucess got into his head on this take. just because he was poor and is rich now doesnt man that everyone that doesnt "make it" is a dumb decision maker. not everyone can be a successful buisness man and the common route should be education into a job. the system is just fucked so hard in america.
Asmongold really been using the "but i know this one guy" argument a lot lately
Responding to one anecdote with another is not arguing. They are simply two separate points/perspectives that can coexist. *insert lead horse to water/drink idiom*
@@mrboy5283 responding to facts with a contridicting anecdote is a piss poor argument is what I'm saying, I'm not here for an argument with asmongold as he doesnt respond to youtube comments.
Wtf is up with that smug horse thing you're doing at the end? Just wondering what the point of it is
@@gamerzss didn't want to pull the quote but "you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink."
All I'm trying to say is not everything is either good-bad, yes-no, zero-one. Binary thinking limits things to 2 outcomes and they are mutually exclusive. Two anecdotes does not make an argument and life is gray sometimes.
if you are searching for good rhetoric i suggest avoiding the internet, and, more broadly, people.
@@boldCactuslad no a lot of us just need to stop watching this hack be a hyprocrite for our own good
Growing up we almost never had all of our utilities on. I used to sponge bath whenever our gas would get shutoff. My dad abused me and my sisters and was eventually arrested and removed from the house. I stopped attending school in 5th grade and eventually dropped out. I was kicked out when I was 18 and moved out of state. How did I move? I bought a Greyhound bus ticket for about $100 and packed my entire life into a backpack in a duffle bag. I "worked" since I was in 4th grade. I had a paper route, I shoveled driveways, and I cut grass to make money.
I sacrificed so much. I didn't have a car (I walked to work from my pay by the week motel), I didn't have health insurance, I didn't go to the movies, I didn't eat out (even fast food), I didn't do anything besides work and sleep. I never received a penny from anyone and I had zero safety net. I grinded my ass off living in poverty for almost 4 years until I was finally "comfortable".
I'm now 35 and have about $400,000 equity in my house. My wife and I have both have paid off cars. I now have disposable income. I don't have to think twice when getting gas or buying food. It is possible to "make it" when you grow up "disenfranchised", but it was rough. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
im happy for you, im glad you found your sucess
Ah I mean yeah it has always been true that there are people who don't apply themselves or whatever but it's an undeniable fact that wages have stagnated, inflation has happened, housing has inflated like crazy, healthcare has inflated like crazy, good paying jobs are harder to get, pensions are gone, and on and on and on. Like you're not wrong that people who try hard are going to do better on average but it's also not wrong that things out there are getting real bad for a lot of people and that a lot of those people DID do the right thing and still got screwed.
I know way too many people that worked hard, and in the same boat.
I work 7 days a week at two jobs with my main job paying above average wages. I don't have kids, I don't party or buy fancy stuff. In my spare time (which there isn't a lot of) I try to work out, study and generally better myself as much as possible. Last year I was lucky enough to buy a very modest flat but only because I got some help from my family and even then I had to overpay handsomely as the competition was just insane. The place needs doing up so I pretty much live from pay check to pay check now and wait for another spanner to be thrown into the whole thing (i.e. pandemic, financial crash, recession, layoffs, war... the list goes on). What am I doing wrong? It's not like I can just go and somehow get twice as much money or make my days longer or stop sleeping completely. I'm also not a RUclipsr or influencer type and I'm pretty sure I'm not an OF material either. So yeah, I get why people are pissed and look for alternatives to what basically is an indentured servitude !
Asmon sounds like a boomer here. I don’t think anyone in their right mind would disagree with the fact that quality of life for the average person has gone down significantly over the past decade. At least here in Canada, hardly any millennials or gen z can or will ever be able to afford to buy a home. What a joke of a take. Look at the average person instead of just saying it’s people’s fault for their laziness and lack of effort in general.
you miss the point. you are completely correct however.
knowing its fucked and bitching about how its fucked doesnt do anything.
it takes people doing things to fix anything. its nearly impossible to do enough to satiate, and thats why people choose to bitch because its easy.
iv spent more than a decade trying to understand economics, geopolitics, theology, and demographics and ill let you guess how much it has accomplished.
actually, its mostly citys. if i look at my home, here in germany, the deeper you go into big citys the more you pay. you could life for 400 euros a month in a nice spacy apartment somewhere in a nice town or you are dumb, go to munich, hamburg and berlin and pay 2k or more for the same space. same with the US and almost any other western nation.
But if quality of life has gone down in the past decade, is it really right to blame boomers for that? Sure there are a lot of boomers in politics, but a lot of political activists are young. It's not older generations, it's ideology that has fucked up our society, and the ideologies that are fucking things up are not the "try to improve yourself and strive for success" style ideologies.
Until some wealthy person buys property where you are, which is the case in the US with people from rich coastal cities like LA, San Francisco, New York or Conneticut are buying up property in the midwest.
Until some wealthy person buys property where you are, which is the case in the US with people from rich coastal cities like LA, San Francisco, New York or Conneticut are buying up property in the midwest.
Dude your wrong on this man you got millions in the bank and don't realize that my grandparent didn't go to college didn't finish high school only GPA worked 40 a week and he was able to afford everything needed to own a home 2 cars an rv feed all 5 kids and spend 3 months a year in Florida... ppl nowadays go to school til 25 they in debt 60k at the start of adulthood and work pays less then cost of living you usually don't have such bad takes but this one... it is what it is
You're*
no its a result of your own decisions *laughs on mountain of money*
@Durzza yes its becoming more abundantly clear that all his compassion for and the care he has for the downtrodden is just bs to make him look better this man has nvr had to leave his mommas house and has more money then probably 1000 families but he's commenting on poor Ness like anyone who is poor chose to be its baffling... I guess born rich folks and the poor who become rich are actually kindred spirits...
This comment proves his point. Stop giving a shit about other people, and comparing yourself to them. Constantly comparing yourself to other people is the bane of your existence and it seems like a social media generation thing.
well then maybe they should do as your grandpa and skip school? instead of going into debt for a worthless diploma?
I think the reason people go to the woods is because it de-abstracts fears. If it's raining, make a roof, if you're hungry get food and if you can't find enough you'll go hungry (has more than this and planning is important but still), whilst modern life has a lot of fears that you can't really pinpoint and don't go away, rent, social fears, am I doing good enough at my job. In "the forest" it all comes down on you if you make a mistake, but no one blames you for it (usually).
Ps. I think that's also partially what makes horror games nice ironically (depending on the game of course), it makes the "horror" more directable, usually to a or multiple creatures, which feels manageable. It also overrides other fears by forcing you to focus on the immediate present one (just a theory though).
I don’t know where people got this idea that being able to provide yourself with the necessities in life should be something that you should have to work hard for. This should be something that is easy for everyone no matter the circumstances as is the way of a healthy society.
Because people do not fundamentally matter. I know this is a hard fact to take, but you will be better off when you realize humanity will always be combating the natural fact our lives have no meaning. That doesn't mean we can just give up, but it does mean you have to accept the world has limited resources, and minds will always disagree on how those resources should be spent, good or bad. I would like that to not be true, but well, here we are.
Because people do not fundamentally matter. I know this is a hard fact to take, but you will be better off when you realize humanity will always be combating the natural fact our lives have no meaning. That doesn't mean we can just give up, but it does mean you have to accept the world has limited resources, and minds will always disagree on how those resources should be spent, good or bad. I would like that to not be true, but well, here we are.
Until we live in a post-scarcity society, this is both economically unfeasable and impossible. Someone has to compensate the farmer for your food, or the miner for the precious metals used in your phone. These things dont just magically happen.
Asmon's POV is so removed from a normal person's life it hurts. At least I appreciate his honesty.
what’s a normal person though? Everyone has their own goals got to make the right steps if your goal is to be the best middle school teacher you aren’t going to be able to have a really nice house. If your goal is to have a nice house you’ll have a job that can do that ykwim
“Normal Person”
@@donavyn6326 hi rabbi
Wow guy who was given a house and streams for a living giving people the bootstraps myth.
You do it. It's easy
@@xCCflierx lol ikr, like he didn't hit streaming at the right time xD
Sure pal, lemme time travel 20 years back and start playing wow for videos. @@xCCflierx
He spends *_hours_* every single day "reacting" *_(ie STEALING)_* content produced by other creators and monetizing it for himself on *_multiple platforms._* He cant even be bothered so much as link to the original videos.
This video is but one example.
It's not about easy or hard, its about luck. You think every streamer who works hard is successful? Give me a break @@xCCflierx
Ok, maybe having money does affect your view on the current state of the economy because if you are in a position where you don’t have to pay attention to the cost of everything you buy then why would you think that there is so wrong when you wouldn’t even notice it to begin with?
remember people, when an onely child who inherited his mum's house and has turned it into a pig stye tells you to quit complaining and just work harder you do it!
I make more money editing for youtubers part time than I did as a seasoned warehouse manager doing 55 hrs /week for a shipping company. Absolutely we're miserable and with close to little wiggle room for any way to progress.
We are also 'assaulted' with education as adults in the form of advertsing telling us that if we want to make more money we need to go back to school. :/
Where you learned to edit?
I really don't wanna go back to a 9-5 job
@@Gorrash Don't.
Don't work. Why? So half your check can go to super single 304s with bastr. children?
Nah, burden the system. Take what you need, give NOTHING back.
They live on the productivity of young MEN.
If they tap out, all the parasites starve.
It's bullshit, isn't it? All my life I was told about how good a "real job" was. And I've been doing labor, factory work, and even spent time in the military all my life. I worked hard, did what I was supposed to do, had some fuck-ups here and there (who didn't?) and it's been very apparent my whole life that "hard work" doesn't pay off. Busting my ass in factory to build things society needs paid me less than my current job, which is sitting on my ass doing customer support for people's video games. It's a sick fucking joke.
I've been in school for 20 years. I've been at the top of my class multiple times. I've always had a scholarship. I have completed a PhD programme and am now a doctor. There is currently no job available that matches my level of education in terms of the salary offered. On top of that, if I wanted to become a university teacher, which is decent money but not great, I'd have to do a second research paper just as extensive and complex as my PhD, while also teaching almost as much as a regular teacher during the week.
No, sometimes, life fucks you over no matter how hard you work. And you know what? Now I'm at the lowest point, mentally speaking, I've ever been in my life, which means I have next to no drive to do anything and no money to seek therapy, despite desperately wanting to.
You are correct. Life will always screw you over no matter how hard you work. It'll screw you even harder if you give up. Failure is just part of life and so is learning from it. You'll figure out something if you keep looking (I know that sound cheesy, but I wanted to offer words of encouragement.)
You worked really hard and your absolute accomplishments are amazing. I just finished a Master's degree and I would love to go and get a PhD but I'm almost 30 and feels like a stretch at my age. I worry these programs won't accept me and people like you with a massive curve will always beat me in that game
Yeap. You worked hard. But sadly, nowadays degrees aren't doing much.
Wow imagine being a doctor and complaining because the better-than-average pay you’re being offered isn’t good enough. No one cares that you went to school for 20 years. Tell that to a guy who’s been roofing for 40 and will never see the money you could. Asmon is so 100% on point with what he said and everyone in the comments just plays themself because they cant see how good their own life is. Asmon was 110% correct.
It’s crazy how I dropped out of college and here I am realizing that I’m smarter than some actual doctors out there. Wild.
Everyone has a different vision of success.
I am currently mid 30's, I live in a fix-up trailer that I spent money on to fix it up and made it liveable and Im only paying land lot fees. I work 3rd shift and after doing the military (with no disability since they fucked me over) making 45-50k a year. I have little debt (paying off a newer car since my old beater ups can't work all the time) and living with enough to put off to the side. No wife (got divorced), no kids, and to me, I'm successful. That, for me, is success. Getting to live life with little to no stress, and making life how I want it. I look like I'm still in my mid 20's. I don't need designer clothes, I don't need the best of the best. I can live just fine with the little things I want and everything I need.
Personally, everyone will have a different mindset. I don't care about others think of my lifestyle or do I need to change someone's opinion. If I died tomorrow, no one would care (maybe family) and the world moves on. Blaming someone never got me nowhere. I'm just another cog in a machine, and as I realized that, I never strived to work hard to the point of stressing myself out. My reality isn't like others, and everyone is different. I was poor growing up to the point that I would find dead rats inside the couch cushions. I told myself I would never live like that, and to this day I haven't. That is my success, and I'm okay living like this for the rest of my days.
you're totally right. being successful is relative, and if you feel good about what you've accomplished in your life, then you shouldn't change anything. being happy and enjoying yourself is the most important part of this short time we have on the earth
When people went bust during the GFC, the banks refused to put houses on the market to keep prices inflated...
You know what we need to do as a unified society? We need to make it where housing is no longer an investment and to prevent corporations from purchasing them wholesale by the thousands.
Housing is a right for all human beings, especially when they're willing to pay for it, but not for exorbitantly exaggerated prices just so investors can have progressively larger returns every year.
I had seen so many W takes from Asmon recently that I thought my memories of his unhinged and braindead takes were just false memories. Turns out he was just on a streak of good takes and he's still very capable of being dumb.
Edit: how people are defending the economy when the numbers support assertions about the poor state it's in is crazy. Prices go up while wages barely raise as well. The buying power of your dollar tanks, your employer doesn't even try to compensate for it, yet it's still somehow worth defending this shit show we call an economy. Are there ways to earn enough that this isn't true for you? Of course. However you get blinded by the success stories and can't see the swathes of failure stories that follow. If you look back in time you can see where a single person could support their entire family on a fairly average wage. Today you can barely support yourself (if you actually can) on a typical wage.
Wages are shit, the housing market is shit, inflation is shit, businesses are shit, yet somehow there are people looking at the situation and claim it's fine. I managed to escape the bottom of the barrel, but I'm not so arrogant as to think there's room for everyone up here. There are ways to not be completely impoverished, but there's hardly enough room for everyone and that's a sign of issues. If the solution to escaping your financial woes is to move up the ladder that's already a dead end idea, the whole population can't be managers if there's no one to manage. Higher scarcity jobs can't be the solution since by their nature there are far fewer opportunities for the average person. You can't even use the solution of moving to better areas since, again, there are a limited number of jobs. You need it to where the minimum wage is a livable wage, but it simply isn't. It's true that the situation is extremely complicated and nearly impossible to solve, but that doesn't make it any less dire.
The Trump stuff, the piss poor AI art takes, I just wish he would stay in his comfort zone instead of alienating everyone, with sh he doesn't even know about.
Biggest disagreement of all time for me. Never get triggered when I disagree but this was brutal! Man kept flip flopping. His ending point was change your self not society, if it doesn’t work out give up…..like bruh wtf. Says Martin Luther king changed his self so much it essentially flowed through others and created a movement
You guys, uhh, this is normal thinking. If you fight hard you'll have a chance to win, and if you don't fight at all you'll for sure lose.
Why is this so hard to understand..?
Haha yeah I think he will always be capable of this level of block headedness, part of his personality
@@ericomfg Boy you're 14, life is more complex than a karate analogy. But maybe this will help you, Imagine fighting a 6'5 275 pound of muscle and calling it fair... That's what Asmon is doing. You can fight hard you aren't doing shit tho little man. Does that make more sense or do I have to break that down too?
I’m gonna go with the “entry level jobs” requiring 5 years of experience.
As someone that did the whole ‘work hard fuck Higher Education’ for my whole life I’m seeing a *Massive* influx in jobs asking not even for a related degree, but ANY kind of graduate at entry level.
Thats always was the case. But how they hire then if no new people can come? The answer is - they do. But u suck and not competitive enough. Deal with your life.
Apply anyway. Most places will interview you anyway and if you know what you're talking about they will hire you. That's what I did
You are correct. When job postings for entry-level jobs say they _require_ X years of experience, they're lying. Just presenting parts of their wish list as must-haves @@MySOAP12
Or you were Azmon or one of his friends. A loser who put no effort into everything. Then you think that's the whole world. So anyone who says they're doing everything right must be lying. Because Azmon and his friends were all losers, so everyone must be losers.
As someone who is poor and has been my entire life I can 100% confirm money is the leading cause of so many mental health issues and or family violence. If everything was cheaper and jobs paid more money peoples overall happiness and wellbeing would be better and mental health would become lower. My friend is a full time Nurse and I'd jump onto that oportunity if I could but because my school was so bad and my teachers were terrible I never got taught basic things like how to even tell the time on an analog clock because I went to a very under funded school with very feral kids. It's funny now that I dropped out of school the government is putting so much more money into the system to help poor kids, wish I had that 10 years ago.
Great insight into this situation.
What makes it harder is many younger people don't have a lot of responsibilities growing up. They're not made to clean their room at 5 years old. Not made to do chores on the regular like yard work, cleaning bathrooms, and kitchen, setting the table, doing dishes, folding clothes, or doing your own laundry when you're a teen. They don't learn to cook their food.
They then go out in the real world not even grasping the basics. Not understanding the basics of being responsible for your own place on the daily.
-Currently the most productive labor force but the least paid in terms of buying power
-College was pushed on us as a goal ro achieve but has little value on jobs
-Schools took advantage of student loans and raised tuition by thousands of a percent. Students didn't know the job was not going to pay off when they took the job. This was before the internet held all of the data and answers.
-Housing and rent rose significantly more than wages.
-New jobs but have a limited amount of opportunities and earning potential is based on popularity (RUclips, Twitch). Not viable to solve gaping economic holes.
-Minorities don't exactly do well in the Midwest...
There are a lot of small issues and people who are trying to solve them are also having to do things just to live. Lots of people try and are weighed down by factors they can't control. Yes, some people give up, but I'd say that even among those were people who did their best until time, health, and the changed state of labor caught up with them and beat them into submission.
What are you talking about?! College has tons of value. College graduates make a median of $2.8 million, compared to 1.6 million for people with only high school diplomas.
@@Creekheed High earners (like CEOs or other executives) inflate that number. Not everyone coming out of college is getting that kind of job.
The promise was, "go to college, get a good job. " That's not the case for a large number of graduates.
Why do you say minorities do not do well in the midwest?
@@CreekheedI’m sure this comes from the same argument of “55k is the median salary”
Meanwhile in reality its 40k, thanks to the top 1% inflating that.
I’m sure your stay is the same, all the doctors and such and rich who can already afford such degrees simply inflating it, rest assured those that are poor and somehow find themselves lucky enough to land a decent job, won’t find that make much more than the average high schooler by the time they’ve struggled through the debt
Asmond falling for the fallacy of looking at his immediate surrounding (and even that not that close I would argue) and generalising. A guy working a dead end job in a burger joint in the 70s would make the equivalent of 25 to 30 dollars an hour today. A house back in thenday would've cost about 30x your income. Now it costs 90x. Those guys who didn't give a fuck at school in the 60s now own a lot of the properties in the UK and US. The difference was that even when they fucked up they were paid enough to make ends meet and save money AND support a family. I know a lot of people first and second hand who did everything right and they can't afford to have kids. People who took degrees in college with good grades and now they are barely able to leave their parent's home. Yeah. Things are fucked. Boomer generation got everything handed out to them and then they pulled up the ladder.
That can very well be true and ultimately it still does not matter. We live in a reality where this is the current situation, and either we accept the shit hand that got dealt to us and make the best of it or we accept defeat and do nothing. It's understandable for people to be pissed about the situation, but emotion not paired with action achieves nothing.
@@amogus3023 or perhaps we could all work together and change the situation for everyone's benefit. saying it doesn't matter is a braindead take, Just because the current situation is bad for some doesn't mean we should just accept it and do nothing, if people had that mindset 200 years ago we would still be using slaves for labor
@@jimbla4747 "we would still be using slaves for labor"
But we do. It's just shifted to exported forced labor and heavy emissions abroad instead of "in house".
It does matter. You can simultaneously work really hard, earn a good living as you best can, but also note that crap conditions came from boomers. Yes blame needs to be properly placed actually for the world to change, ESPECIALLY when boomers are still in positions of power. Your "hustle bro" culture is a silly thing. Many people hustle quietly and accept and work through difficult conditions but also recognize times are crap because of poor decisions from previous gen.@@amogus3023
@@amogus3023 you can not accept defeat as much as you want. The reality is that it is going to matter very little. Look at the people who graduated in 2008. They left college in the middle of the worst recession to date. They lost years of their careers. Sure they can grind and turn things around and some did. But even those are still worse off than previous generations. Look at generational wealth charts, look at the wealth of the top 1%. It has never been more skewed. You are also committing a logical error.
Dude completely missed the message and went on a completely different tangent.
This is the most idiotic thing you have ever said.
“And that’s why they invested in NFT’s”
I think Asmon forgets he’d be a team lead at Sam’s Club without streaming
nah hed be at the irs ensuring we are all poor
@@ZergS4uc3 didn't he literally work there before streaming? would make sense
Team lead is extremely generous
@@slick3996 He quit the IRS because getting handed a cushy $70,000 a year job via nepotism as his first job was "too hawd :("
this man would be a homeless junky alongside his father without twitch lmao
he got lucky and popped off. He than used his popularity to create a business and blossomed. Good on him for doing that but forgetting that luck was a great deal of how he got there shows just how out of touched he has become and telling ppl who work multiple jobs that they just arent trying hard enough is just beyond out of touch.
I am gen X and you are trying to make it sound so easy. Let me ask, what did you do before you hit gold with streaming/youtube? I wonder where you would be if this platform never happened.
I say he probably be the same but with less people commented on his view on YT channel.
hed be fucked because i dont think he could hold a good job for long, and no disrespect but if his parents passed and he wasnt on youtube like he is now he wouldnt be able to afford to keep the house and maintain it either.
Thing is tho is he is successful so hopes and what ifs don't really matter
He did say he was “Lucky”.
The only thing you need understand is stop comparing yourself with your peers who were born into a better life. Let them enjoy their times shopping, hanging out and “living”. While you work, and use your most resourceful and energetic part of life to build something. You can always enjoy whatever your peers enjoyed in your 40s and 50s. It’s not like your life is over.
its not about where he would be if it wasnt for youtube and yall thinking thats a good counterargument proves his points. the point is that if it werent for youtube his failures would be his own, not "societies". it was his choice to put effort in to youtube and it paid off, if it didnt pay off it would still have been his choice and his failure, not everyone elses for not watching his content.
what you are doing is , for example, if you were asmon and youtube failed you would be blaming everyone else for not watching your content. THAT is the point. that is what everyone disagreeing with him is outright rejecting to understand because they are pathologically delusional as a form of coping.
I've basically summed this up to be the difference between individuality and systemic thinking. Asmongold seems to elevate Individuality over Systems. Which I'd say, in most cases is totally fine. Like he said, it's unhealthy to be in a constant state of victimhood. However, to say that it's pointless to have an opinion on the state of society or the importance of society doing the right thing is both wrong and baffling. Just because society is complex and chaotic, does not mean I as an individual am incapable or pathetic for wanting to influence it in some way. Or even not influencing it, but just having an opinion matters. Words matter. Conversations matter. People matter. The way things are governed matter. If they didn't matter, wars would not have been fought for these things... My only positive take that I can have from his points is: everybody is a loser at some point in their life, and sure, it doesn't hurt to admit when you're a loser, but you can always take action to make your life better.
That being said, You can tell people how it is, but you should also tell people how it could be if things were better. An individual can be in a bad place for a hundred different reasons, but it is reasonable to accept that a failure of society and culture is one of those reasons and even a significant reason for their misfortune.
Thank you for reading my youtube comment essay.... like so someone sees it. ;)
From my lone perspective, being on my own since 16 with no safety net of family or friends, I've been homeless most of my life excluding my 20's. I make money and never minimum wage but things cost substantial more than you'd expect, so much that it makes me feel like either I'm unlucky or overlooked. When i hear people talk about this without knowing the bottom it just makes me realize that there's 2 Americas. Its best to avoid these people who have been insulated and think they know anything about you or your life. Nobody likes violence but these people need to be quiet or get slapped around a bit
Your whole winners VS losers discussion is forgetting the fact that there is an aspect of musical chairs to it. Yeah, if you miss out on one of the chairs it's because you didn't try as hard as the other guy. True. But you can't ignore the fact that the game is designed in such a way that there will always be a minimum percentage of losers. To push the analogy a little bit further, we're all noticing that all the chairs seem to be stacked up on one side of the room, making it far easier for some and far more difficult for others.
Yes, It is generally always the best advice to give to the individual to be personally responsible for your own path in life. But using that mindset as an argument against solving large scale, societal issues is disingenuous at best. It is not hypocritical to acknowledge that the individual is responsible for their decisions while also acknowledging that the possible options individuals have are kind of shit and we as a society can do better.
And alot of the players are in cahoots with music player to control when the music stops to their benefit and to detriment of specific players.
you put it well its abt winners and losers and the winners are already picked from the start based on circumstances environment who ya parents are etc
Wildly, musical chairs is a hilariously PERFECT analogy. As you mentioned, the positioning of the chairs has changed. The number of chairs has changed. The value of the chairs has changed.
Gas was under 2 dollars a gallon 4 years ago and that's unthinkable pricing compared to the 90s.
You're right. I think people jump to quickly on people with Asmon's position though. It's absolutely hard, and it is likely some of the worst the world has seen in generations. Also, the older generations really do seem to not care. However, no matter how bad it gets we can't stop moving forward. Sure, the chairs are few in a lot of places, but there are places where the chairs are many. There are also different types of chairs. Each person needs to decide whether they want a nice padded chair that reclines, or if they will be content with the bare metal foldable chair. That choice won't be permanent however. You can make a metal chair very comfortable.
Regardless, we must keep pushing forward in spite of all the obstacles in our path.